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Wheat and Barley Production in Washington
For decades Washington has been known throughout the world as the home of high quality soft white and club wheat production. Washington farmers also raise superb hard red winter, hard white, hard red spring wheat, and barley.
In 2015 there were 2.2 million acres of wheat harvested in the state of Washington, yielding more than 111 million bushels, and barley was harvested on 100 thousand acres for a total production of 4.8 million bushels.
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Winter Wheat |
Spring Wheat |
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| Soft White |
86% |
65% |
| Hard White |
<1% |
1% |
| Hard Red |
14% |
34% |
| Total | 1.64 million acres (85.3 million bushels) | 605 thousand acres (23.2 million bushels) |
This data was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Statistics Service.
